The Killing Fields... Iain and I visited an ex killing field today just outside of Phnom Pehn. It was an experiance I don't think I will ever forget. As we walked in a huge, very tall display cabinet stood infront of us. It had about 20 shelves and each shelf was full of skulls. Skulls of young women, old men...even children. It was hard to imagine that these skulls were once a whole human. Underneath all of the skulls were clothes which they had found when they unearthed the graves. We walked around and there were lots of unearthed mass graves. Graves which contained 100's of bodies. Almost 9,000 people were bought to this place, executed here and eventually buried. Piles of bones lay on the floor beside some graves. There was a tree which was labelled 'The Killing Tree', it said that children were beaten by this tree and killed...often with their parents watching. There was another tree named 'The Magic Tree', on this tree they hung microphones, it made the sounds louder to cover up the awful noise of people dying, being beaten and crying. They killed people by standing them infront of their grave and beating them over the head, they'd fall into the grave one and one and when the grave was full they were cover them in a harsh liquid to take away the smell of death and to kill off some which were still alive. This place really shocked me and I learnt a lot from it today. I knew how bad the Khmer Rouge had been in it's reign, but to really see the remains of the victims brought it all close to me. I had a tear in my eye as I walked looking at all of the skulls of these innocent people...